Revolutionary and Federalist-Era Documents

A fine miscellaneous group of 8 documents relating to that era or persons of that era, as follows:



Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 20, 1778. Resolve for filling up and compleating the fifteen battalions of Continental troops, directed to be raised in the State of Massachusetts-Bay. [Boston: 1778]; light dampstains in left margin, formerly folded. Evans 43492 — State of Massachusetts Bay, Middlesex. To Mr. Richard Hunnewell, Constable of the Town of Cambridge, Greeting [order to gather voters at the court house to determine how they will instruct their representatives to act "relative to the proposed Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union", manuscript document, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 12 January 1778, folio, 1 1/2 pages, verso rescript signed by Richard Hunnewell attesting that he has so gathered the townspeople; formerly folded, fold-tears. This and the last in pale blue half-morocco clamshell box. — Lachlan McIntosh. Autograph document signed ("Lachn McInctosh"), as part of attestation to the residency of Joshua Pierce on land in Georgia, also signed by Pierce and 4 witnesses, 3 pages, 4to, no place [Georgia], 22 October 1795. Brown cloth fold-case. McIntosh (1725-1806), member of Congress, killed Button Gwinnett in a duel. — James Wilson, William Davis. Letter signed by both, 1 1/2 pages (12 1/2 x 8 in.; 318 x 204 mm), Philadelphia, 19 April 1780, to Joseph Reed; formerly folded, lower left edge and bottom frayed touching one word of address. Blue half-morocco clamshell box. Wilson (1742-1798), a prominent lawyer, Advocate General for France in America, here defends a client in a maritime case, to Reed, President of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council. — John Adams. 2 franking signatures. Brown cloth clamshell box. — Benjamin Franklin - Passy Imprint. [Receipt for Papers relating to Prize Ships], printed broadside (12 1/4 x 8 in.; 310 x 204 mm), in a red half-morocco clamshell box. A receipt Franklin was required to supply in conformity with a French law of 27 September 1778. — Thomas Jefferson. Signature evidently clipped from a multi-language ships papers, New York, 28 September 1801, plus small engraved portrait, in a green half-morocco slipcase. — Fourth Congress of the United States ... An Act To ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States. [Philadelphia: 1796]. Folio, 4 pages, signed by Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State; frayed at bottom edge. Blue half-morocco clamshell box. Evans 47976 — Dolley P. Madison. Autograph letter signed ("DP Madison"), 1 page (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 246 x 196 mm), Montpellier, Virginia, 7 September 1840, to Mrs. Davis, responding to a request for an autograph; formerly folded, offset from engraved portrait included. Red half-morocco clamshell box. 

generally very good, some creases from folding, one document frayed at bottom, see cataloguing.
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